"I don't have a political bone in my body."
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"It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political."
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"There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience."
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"Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy - in other words, what's happening now."
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"We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit."
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"In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably."
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"The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect diabolical."
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"Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey."
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"All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects."
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"If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage."
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"I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year."
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"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman."
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"Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion of doctrines regarding possible use of nuclear weapons makes them more, you know, sort of, salient and important and so it's increasing the perceived political value of nuclear weapons and therefore causing or contributing to possible proliferation."
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"Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep."
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"Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation."
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"I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education."
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"Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in upon us, he must above all be the chief executive in every sense of the word."
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"I was trying to say something about Christianity, the idea that you have to be tortured to attain heaven. I didn't believe that."
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"We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting."
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"I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo."
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